Wednesday, June 17, 2009

How to Convert Your Friends into Twilight Fans

Like I said, I’ve turned into a Twilight fan. For three weeks after I came back from New York, I lived and breathed the Twilight saga, reading the books over and over again, watching the DVD, listening to the soundtracks, and searching any Twilight related video clips on YouTube. Yeah, I know, it’s all a little bit obsessive. The worst part though, is that I don’t have many friends who’ve read Twilight, it being a teen novel and all, which made it hard to share my obsession. So, what’s a girl to do, but to try to convert all her friends into fans, just like her? And what better way to do it than to throw a Twilight-themed girls’ night complete with a screening of the movie?

Here’s what you do:

Step 1: send invitation to all your girlfriends regardless of whether they’ve read Twilight or not. After all, the goal is to have as many of your friends as possible with whom you can discuss and obsess over Twilight together, so new blood (no pun intended) is crucial.

Step 2: get your friend who owns a cooking school to send her chef to cook the “bloody” feast for you. Who can resist a gourmet meal cooked by a handsome chef? So he’s no Edward Cullen, but in real life we have to make do.

Step 3: fill your place with as much greeneries as you can so it resembles Forks, the little town the book is set in that’s perpetually green and luscious.

Step 4: conjure up the idea to make a cake that look like Edward’s meadow and reincarnate Edward and Bella in fondant, despite the fact that you’ve never made any human figurines out of fondant before and that fondant literally melts in Singapore’s heat and humidity. To quote Edward, “Mind over matters.”

Step 5: play the soundtrack and Debussy piano music to set the mood.

Step 6: details, details, details. This includes the red apple, which is on the book cover, and represent the forbidden fruit; flowers that smell good and aroma candles to simulate Bella’s floral scent; drinks that look like blood, such as sangria and watermelon juice; and last but not the least, dress up in your vampire chic best! You want to make Alice proud.

Step 7: channel Siobhan’s ability so you can will it to rain after three straight weeks of sunshine and scorching heat. It wouldn’t be Forks if it weren’t wet and gloomy!

Et Voila! You have yourself a bloody good time with friends and virtually all of them are now converts. The next time you throw a New Moon party, nobody will be going, “Aren’t vampires supposed to kill people?”

11 comments:

haha, pardon me, but I *know* exactly how you feel.. however, my friends aren't "convert-able". So sadly i'm the only 1 who's obsessed. literally obsessed with a teen flick and books tho I really shouldn't.

But..I'm giving it a shot by organising a mini twilight slumber party..soon. :)

You should definitely do it! Sadly, most of my existing Twilight fan friends were out of town that weekend, so almost everyone who came have never heard of it. BUT, I converted 6 out of the 7 who were not fans, and the otehr one is going to break down and read the book any minute now =o)

It all sounds ridiculous if you just say it's a teen vampire love story. You have to really SHOW them the way. good luck with your slumber party!

Way to go babe!! Everyone else thinks I'm crazily obssessed with Twilight. But I hoodwinked my fiance into watching it with me tho. Tee hee. Exasperating part:he wanted to switch it off just when Edward and Bella were gonna do the dance right at the end. The *romantic* part!! *sigh..*

I stumbled across your blog with a web search on making paneer, and then happened upon this. As an adult who is obsessed with Twilight, I both sympathize with your obsession and love the idea of your party. My friend sneakily converted me by giving me the first book for my birthday (a while before the movie came out).I have to agree, too, with your movie assessment. The movie pales in comparison to the book.

I think the book lose some audience for being marketed as an "young adult" book. To date, I don't have one friend who didn't like it after I convinced them to have an open mind and read it. They really should do away with the "teen vampire flick" when they market the movie too. It makes it sound so cheesy =o(

Would love to include your Twilight Meadow Cake picture on this web page about the Twilight Saga Eclipse Meadow Scene. Please leave a comment in the guest book if it's OK to do so otherwise, I'll just include a link back to your Flickr page.

About Me

After obtaining her Doctorate in Pharmacy, Lynn spent years working in the healthcare industry but was frustrated that she couldn’t derive any satisfaction from her career. She finally made the decision to pursue what she enjoys doing the most: making delicious desserts and sharing them with the people in her life. She enrolled in the French culinary institute Le Cordon Bleu in Tokyo and obtained her diploma in French patisserie in December 2006.

When not in her kitchen whisk in hand, Lynn enjoys taking photos of food and her surroundings. Her photos have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Hong Kong Chic, Tokyo Chic, Singapore Chic, promotional materials for Le Goûter Bernadaud Hong Kong and several websites and web based magazines. The cookbook that she shot: Wine Dinners by Melina and NK Yong went on to win Best Wine Book of the Year at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in 2009.

Lynn started taking riding lessons in 2009 and before long, weekly lessons became bi-weekly, then three times a week. She now rides 5 days a week at the Singapore Polo Club on a lovely Lipizzaner mare named Istria.